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Terex closes Waverly plant, moves work to Oklahoma

Cedar Valley Business Monthly: Some 175 employees of Terex Cranes are out of a job after the Waverly plant ceased operations Tuesday, marking the end of a manufacturing operation that has been a staple of the …

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Mason to retire as UI faculty member; gets $625K in deferred pay

Iowa City Press-Citizen: Less than a year after retiring as University of Iowa president, Sally Mason has submitted her letter of resignation as a tenured faculty member in the UI Department of Biology.…

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Mason to retire as UI faculty member; gets $625K in deferred pay

Iowa City Press-Citizen: Less than a year after retiring as University of Iowa president, Sally Mason has submitted her letter of resignation as a tenured faculty member in the UI Department of Biology.…

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Hawkeye buys downtown St. Louis hotel

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Hawkeye Hotels of Burlington has purchased a nine-story, 91-room hotel in downtown St. Louis and said today that it will refurbish and rebrand it. The hotel, the Omni Majestic, opened in 1913 and …

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Cedar Falls sets building record; Waterloo at nine-year high

Cedar Valley Business Monthly: Cedar Falls set a record for construction value while Waterloo secured its second-highest total in the recently completed fiscal year.…

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Iowa losing millions of trees; water quality threatened

Des Moines Register: Iowa’s thirst for new farmland helped drive the loss of 97,000 acres of woodlands in just five years, a new federal report shows. It’s the first time in nearly 40 years that the…
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Iowa City deemed most expensive place to live in Iowa

Iowa City Press-Citizen: Where is the most expensive place to live in Iowa? According to a recent ranking by financial news and opinion company 24/7 Wall St., the answer is Iowa City.…

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Iowa rises, Nebraska falls in CNBC business climate ranking

Omaha World Herald: Iowa rose from 10th to ninth while Nebraska slipped from seventh to 11th in a CNBC ranking of states according to their economic climate for business.…

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Held ‘hostage’ no longer: Tyson to give up empty Cherokee plant

Des Moines Register: A running dispute between local officials in Cherokee and Tyson Foods may be resolved after the company offered to walk away from its empty meat processing plant there. In the wake of criticism …

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Polk County task force backs $1.50 bump to minimum wage

Des Moines Register: A Polk County task force will recommend raising the local minimum wage to $8.75 per hour Jan. 1, 2017, and instituting a series of annual wage bumps if the state fails to take …

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